War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Snoop-dogs ain’t no tiny wieners — in the Guardian yesterday: But the documents reveal, too, the darker side of the NSA. It is indiscriminate in the information it is collecting. Nothing appears to be too small for the NSA. Nothing too trivial. Rivals, enemies, allies and friends – US citizens and ‘non-Americans’ – are all scooped…
In less than six short months, out has popped a storyline that just still won’t go away — America’s big spy agency is shown to be a cankered sore on a near-day-to-day basis. Now, the Angela Merkel (and near-about everybody else on the planet) episode. Mark Urban at the BBC summed up this farce of ‘intelligence’…
Leaks continue of the NSA’s nefarious proclivities worldwide, this latest today carries some technological irony: Obama and Merkel spoke over the phone after the chancellor reportedly received information that U.S. intelligence may have been monitoring her cellphone. Although I can’t really put my finger on the sense of it, but seemingly there’s something way-odd, and inherently…
Once again, Monday morning and life starts at the top, then goes straight-down the tubes. Deep, wet fog as the work week starts here on California’s north coast, and we’re sure everyone’s geared-up and ready to go. Not! Beyond the obscene mess of US politics, the weekend was a slow-news cycle, unless reports carried the…
Foggy and quiet this early Sunday — California’s north coast right now in the faint light is enveloped in a deep-gray moist of a morning. And not to mention, way-gothic. Fits the mood all-around. I’m pretty-much tired of horrific, or near-horrific accidents involving fossil fuels, and there seems to be one every few days — the…
Once again, crystal-clear skies this early Friday (whoopee!) and it’s on to the weekend — can’t come fast enough. And if you have been aware/understand anything at all about climate change, and have some walking-around sense, the new report due today from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should come as no real surprise —…
Under the news layers, another slice of possible horror from the never-ending terror-tale of the Fukushima nuclear plant — this time the possible extraction of 1300 spent fuel rods from Unit 4: Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause…
Crystal-clear and a bit chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a majestic full moon hanging mega-bright over it all — despite that, we’ve a 90 percent forecast for rain later today, maybe with some thunderstorms tonight. Weather is as peculiar as life nowadays. Apparently, in this humanistic, modern age, guns are king:…
Overcast and cool this way-early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and if the last few days are any indication, the weather up here is returning to its normal mode of cool damp. We’re coming off the most-extended warming period I’ve experienced since moving up here more than six years ago. A feel for the future.…
(Illustration found here). Further tales of the NSA — this one on the Dr. Strangelove character, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, and the good general’s Star Trek obsession, and on our dime. Via PBS: “When he was running the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir…
